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CTMQ > West Haven

Eaton/Dix Intersection

November 29, 2024 by Steve Leave a Comment

Don't Blow It Eaton/Dix Intersection, West Haven November 2024 ***Warning!*** Not the usual CTMQ content. You can guess from the title of the page where it's going. You've been warned. My wife and I used to always take at least one day off from work together to "go do stuff" on or near one of our fall … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, New Post, Towers, Bridges, Forts, Tunnels, Roads, Canals, Dams, Fishways, Airports, & Ferries Tagged With: CTMQ After DArk, Hoang, Roads and Tunnels, West Haven

Adjutant William Campbell Memorial

November 25, 2024 by Steve Leave a Comment

Bloody Hell Adjutant William Campbell Memorial, West Haven November 2024 I've had this memorial on my radar for a while. I always had it in my head as the only memorial in the US honoring an enemy combatant. Which, if true, is both weird and fascinating. But now that I've been to the Adjutant William Campbell … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, New Post, Religion, Cemeteries, Monuments, Statuary, Greens, & Outdoor Sculpture & Art, Superlatives Tagged With: Dubious Claims, Firsts Onlies and Oldests, Hoang, West Haven

Fifth Year Brewery (Closed)

July 30, 2021 by Steve 2 Comments

5THYEA B EWE Y Fifth Year Brewery, West Haven And in their Fifth Year, they closed... ... Or, more accurately, in their eighth year of pretending to exist in any real or tangible way, they never opened. Say what? Am I really writing a page about a brewery that was never actually a brewery? Yeah. I am. But! … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Breweries, Food & Drink, New Post Tagged With: Closed/Gone/Former, West Haven

RWA: Maltby Lakes

January 18, 2021 by Steve 2 Comments

I'll Drink to This Place Maltby Lakes, West Haven, New Haven, & Orange January 2021 All Regional Water Authority (RWA) properties require a purchased permit to access. In case you're curious, Maltby Lakes was my very first RWA hike, 14+ years after I began this website. The RWA properties have always been this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Audubon, Nature Conservancy, RWA, &US Army Corps of Engineers Trails, Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, New Post Tagged With: Calvin, Hikes with my Boys, New Haven, Orange, privately owned trail, RWA Trails, West Haven

Another Earth (2011)

December 31, 2020 by Steve Leave a Comment

Another Connecticut Movie Another Earth, 2011 Ahhhh... after a slew of awful "Connecticut movies," I'm so happy to have watched an engaging, interesting, actually pretty good Connecticut movie! Finally. And the craziest thing about Another Earth, a relatively small release little movie, is that when I borrowed it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Movies, People, & Stories, Everything Else, New Post Tagged With: connecticut movies, movies, New Haven, West Haven

CTMQ’s Guide to West Haven

July 14, 2019 by Steve Leave a Comment

Everything West Haven I’ve been exploring and writing about Connecticut since 2006. After a decade, I began compiling CTMQ guides for each town in the state. I plan on “completing” West Haven CTMQ-style... as well as the other 168 towns, cities, and boroughs in Connecticut. That is the ultimate goal of CTMQ. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: CTMQ Town Guides, New Post Tagged With: West Haven

West Haven’s Town Trails

July 14, 2019 by Steve 1 Comment

West Haven’s Town Trails The town of West Haven doesn't really oversee any real trails, but since they do have the longest stretch of public beach in the state, and there is a sort of walkway covering the length of most of it, and since there are some cool aspects to the shoreline there... here we are. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Town Land Hikes Tagged With: West Haven

Land Trust of West Haven Intro

July 13, 2019 by Steve Leave a Comment

Land Trust of West Haven West Haven West Haven, one of the our state's four havens, isn't too much of a haven for open enjoying open space for hiking. West Haven is home to the longest stretch of public beach in the state, so there is beautiful open space here, just not your typical land trust open … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Land Trust Hikes Tagged With: the land trust of west haven, West Haven

Georgie’s Diner

August 5, 2010 by Steve 1 Comment

A Haven For Diner Fans Georgie’s Diner, West Haven August 2010 2019: This page is pretty bad and I'll need to revisit Georgie's someday to redo it. I took this day off from work many months in advance. There was a museum to get to only open on Wednesday afternoons and a once-per-year museum in Hamden. I made … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Classic Diners & True Taverns, Food & Drink Tagged With: Classic Diners, restaurants, West Haven

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